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Indian Fairy Tales: The Farmer and the Money-Lender

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HERE was once a farmer who suffered much at the hands of a money-lender. Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich. At the last, when he hadn't a farthing left, the farmer went to the money-lender's house, and said, "You can't squeeze water from a stone, and as you have nothing to get by me now, you might tell me the secret of becoming rich." "My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from Ram--ask him." "Thank you, I will!" replied the simple…

Indian Fairy Tales: The Farmer and the Money-Lender

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